Where to watch TV shows and films in English with subtitles

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Learn new vocabulary and hone your pronunciation with these services.

1. Puzzle English

• Platforms: web.
• Cost: 2,990 rubles per year.

Puzzle English is a service for comprehensive English language learning. In addition to many lessons, exercises and games on the subject, on the project's website you will find a video library with 46 TV series and 512 films in English. The assortment lacks new products, but there are many time-tested hits. All of these videos can be watched online with a one-year subscription.

The service player allows you to display double subtitles on the screen and control the playback speed. The video quality is average, clearly less than Full HD. A special translator is also at the service of users, which takes into account the context and is triggered after clicking on a word. You can easily send unfamiliar words to your personal dictionary and then learn them using special exercises.

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2. Ororo.tv

• Platforms: web.
• Cost: free or from 299 rubles per month.

The project catalog contains over 3,000 films and TV series in English. Among them there are new items, and already well-known old works in HD resolution.

You can turn on several subtitles in different languages in the player at the same time, adjust the playback speed, quickly translate words and add them to your personal dictionary. The service allows you to learn vocabulary using the well-known method of spaced repetition.

Every day the user is allowed to watch up to 45 minutes of video and translate up to 50 words for free. To remove restrictions and, in addition, get access to films and additional series, you need to issue a paid subscription. Subscribers can not only watch the video online, but also download it to watch it offline.

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3. Hamatata.com

• Platforms: web.
• Cost: Free.

The main feature of the service is that it does not contain its own content. But you can add videos to it yourself from a computer or via a link from other Internet resources, and then connect subtitles to them. This will allow you to watch TV shows and movies in the Hamatata.com web player with a handy built-in subtitle translator.

Hamatata.com uses technologies from Yandex, Google and other translation systems and can connect to the LinguaLeo dictionary so that you can export new words there and then learn them. All features of the service are available free of charge.

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4. Traditional video services

Popular platforms with video content like Google Play Movies, iTunes, Netflix, ivi and Okko also offer TV shows and films in English with different subtitle options. A particularly rich choice in this regard is provided by foreign media giants. Russian companies (ivi and Okko) have a more modest range of videos with an English soundtrack.

Depending on the service, the viewer pays for a subscription or buys individual series and films, after which he can enjoy the video in Full HD on almost any modern device. You can select the language for audio and text, but you cannot turn on multiple subtitles at the same time. Fast translation functions and dictionaries are also missing. There are workarounds though. For example, the SUFLI Chrome extension translates subtitles on the web version of Netflix on click.

iTunes

• Platforms: macOS, iOS, Windows, Apple TV.
• Cost: buying and renting TV series and films at different prices.

iTunes is available on all Apple devices out of the box, and Windows users can install a dedicated client and watch videos in it. But you can't use the service on Android.

Google Play Movies

• Platforms: web, Android, iOS, Smart TV.
• Cost: buying and renting TV series and films at different prices.

Google offers viewers a huge library of films, some of which can be watched in different languages. Moreover, prices are often lower than in iTunes.

Netflix

• Platforms: web, game consoles, Android, iOS, Windows, Smart TV, Apple TV.
• Cost: from 7, 99 euros per month.

The famous international video service, which has gained fame largely thanks to its exclusive series.

ivi

• Platforms: Web, Smart TV, Apple TV, Android, iOS, game consoles.
• Cost: Free with ads; subscription for 399 rubles per month; purchase and rental of individual films.

One of the most popular online cinemas in Russia. The list of films with an English soundtrack available on ivi can be viewed in the special.

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Okko

• Platforms: web, Smart TV, Android, iOS, game consoles.
• Cost: subscription from 249 rubles per month; purchase and rental of individual films.

Another Russian platform that offers some of the video content in English.

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5. Popcorn Time

• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux.
• Cost: Free.

Popcorn Time is a cross-platform application that works like a torrent client. Only it does not make you wait until the content is loaded into the device's memory: Popcorn Time starts broadcasting the video immediately after pressing the Play button.

You can choose the quality of videos up to Full HD, as well as the language of audio and subtitles. For the application to work properly, you need a stable high-speed Internet.

Popcorn Time is absent from Google Play and the App Store, so you have to install it on smartphones in non-standard ways. To run the application on Android, you need to allow installation of programs from third-party sources in the device settings, and then download the Android version of PopCorn Time from the official website directly to your tablet or smartphone.

To run the application on iOS, you need to download the installer to your computer and install the Popcorn Time iOS client on your iPhone or iPad using it. You don't need a jailbreak for this.

Popcorn Time, like torrent trackers, distributes content illegally. By using it, you can infringe on copyright. At the same time, the program allows you to watch films that are not officially available in your region.

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6. Torrent trackers

• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Android, Linux.
• Cost: Free.

If you don't mind downloading videos to your device, then, of course, you can download English-language TV shows and movies from torrent trackers. All that is needed for this is a service to find files (for example, Skytorrents, or another) and a uTorrent program to download them. If the downloaded video turns out to be without the required subtitles, then they can be downloaded separately from the Opensubtitles resource. For viewing, it is convenient to use players like KMPlayer that support double subtitles.